heart.

the thought of going away fell heavy upon my We had now reached the castle. Give me the guitar,' she said, 'but keep the book: I know it by heart. Have you had breakfast? No? Poor, poor George: it is lucky that no dragon met us; you would have been hardly able to stand upon your

feet.'

A side-door, that I had not previously noticed, led to that part of the ground-floor inhabited by the father and daughter. Constance called an old female servant, and directed her to prepare me some breakfast, and then she left me, after giving me her hand, with that melancholy transient smile which I had already noted, on her beautiful lips.

CHAPTER VII.

to manage: the buildings, which at a distance seen by him. How had my father borne my de-
still presented a tolerable appearance, proved, parture? Was he anxious about me? Assuredly
when near, to be little better than crumbling ruins. he was; for he still loved me, notwithstanding our
The thatched roofs had sunk in decay and were mutual alienation. What would he do when he
overgrown with moss, the ornamental work had learned-as sooner or later he must learn-that I
dropped away, the plaster peeled off in patches, was with the Wild Zehren? Would he allow me
the doors hung awry on their rusted hinges, and in to stay? Would he command me to return?
many places were entirely wanting. A stable into Perhaps come for me himself?
which I looked had been originally built to ac- As this thought came into my mind, I looked
commodate forty horses; now there stood in a uneasily around. It would be intolerable to have
corner four lean old brutes that set up a hungry to go back to the stifling class-room, to be scolded
neighing as they saw me. As I came out again again, like a boy, by Professor Lederer, and never
into the court, a wagon partly laden with corn and more to see Fräulein von Zehren-Constance!
dragged by four other miserable jades, went reel- Never would I endure it! My father had driven
ing over the broken stones of the pavement, and me from his house: he might take the conse-
disappeared in the yawning doorway of one of the quences. Rather than go back, I would turn ban-
immense barns, like a coffin in a vault.
dit-smuggler-

The breakfast, which the ugly taciturn old
I strolled further on, passing one or two dilapi- I do not know how the last word came upon my
woman-whom Constance called 'Pahlen'-set dated hovels, where half-naked children were lips, but I remember-and I have since often
before me after about half an hour, might well playing in the sand, and a couple of fellows, more thought of it-that when I had uttered the word
have been ready in less time, for it consisted only like bandits than farm-hands, were lounging, who half aloud, merely as a heroical phrase, without
of black bread, butter, cheese, and a flask of stared at me with looks mingled with shyness and attaching any distinct meaning to it, I suddenly
cognac. The cognac was excellent; but the re-insolence-and reached the fields. The sun shone started, as if some one had spoken it in my imme-
mainder of the repast far from luxurious, for the brightly enough, but it lighted up little that was diate vicinity; and at the same moment the ad-
bread was sour and mouldy in spots, the butter pleasant to the eye: waste land, with here and ventures of the previous night, and what I had
rancid, and the cheese hard as a stone; but what there scattering patches of sparse oats, overgrown since observed, arranged themselves in a definite
was that to a youth of nineteen, who had eaten with blue corn-flowers and scarlet poppies, a little connection; just as one looking through a telescope
nothing for twelve hours, and whose silly heart, rusted wheat, an acre or so where the rye-late sees heaven and earth blended together in dim
moreover, was palpitating with its first passion! enough for the season-still stood in slovenly confusion, until the right focus is attained, when a
So it seemed to me that I had never had a more sheaves, and where a second wagon was being laden distinct picture stands before him. How could I
sumptuous repast; and I thanked the old woman by two fellows of the same bandit appearance as the have been so blind-so destitute of ordinary ap-
for her trouble with the utmost politeness.-
men at the hovels, and who stared at me with the prehension? Herr von Zehren over at Pinnow's,
'Pahlen' did not seem to know what to make of
same surprised and skulking looks, without answer- the strange connection that manifestly existed be-
me: she looked askance at me, two or three times, ing my salutation. At some distance appeared tween the nobleman and the smith, Christel's
with a sort of surly curiosity; and to the questions through the trees and bushes the roofs of farm-warnings, Pinnow's behavior toward me, and the
that I put to her, replied with an unintelligible buildings, evidently upon another estate, to which night-sail in the terrible storm! And then this
grumbling, out of which I could make nothing.
belonged, doubtless, the far better cultivated fields uncared-for house, this ruinous farmyard, these
The room in which I now found myself-it was which I had now reached. Further to the right, desolated fields, this neglected park! The solitary
the same into which Herr von Zehren had con-above a larger collection of houses, arose the plain situation of the place, upon a promontory extend-
ducted me on our first arrival-might, in compari- white steeple of a church. But I did not care to ing far into the sea! I had learned already from
son with the deserted apartments of the upper push my explorations further: an impulse drew frequent conversations between my father and his
story, be called habitable, though the carpet under
me back to the park, which I reached by a cir- colleagues in the Excise-office, how actively smug-
the table was ragged, several of the carved oaken cuitous route on the other side, for I wished to gling was carried on in these waters, what a flour-
chairs were no longer firm upon their legs, and a avoid the castle and the grumbling old Pahlen. ishing business it was, and how much might be
great antique buffet in one corner had decidedly
I had hoped here to meet Constance again; but made at it by any one who was willing to peril his
seen better days. The windows opened upon a
court, into which, my breakfast once over, I cast in vain did I listen more than an hour under the life upon occasion. All was clear as day: this and
a look. This court was very spacious, the barns trees and among the bushes, watching the castle no other was the solution of the mystery.
and stables that enclosed it of the very largest until I knew by heart nearly every broken tile
dimensions, such as are only found on the most upon the roof, and each separate patch-and they
considerable estates. So much the more striking were not few-where the rains of so many years
had detached the plaster and laid bare the stones
was the silence that prevailed in it. In the centre
beneath. No one was to be seen; no sound was
of the space was a dove-cote built of stone, but no
audible; while the afternoon sun gleamed upon
wings fluttered about it, unless perhaps those of a
the window panes, save when the shadow of a
passing swallow. There was a duck-pond without
passing cloud swept over them.
ducks, a dunghill upon which no fowls were
scratching-one peacock sat upon the broken
paling-everything seemed dead or departed.
Here was no hurrying to and fro of busy men, no
lowing of cattle or neighing of horses; all was
vacant and silent; only from time to time the pea
cock on the paling uttered his dissonant cry, and
the sparrows twittered in the twigs of an old

linden.

My spirits began to yield to the depressing influences of this scene of sunlit desolation. I felt as if the silence, like an invisible magic net, was folding around me closer and closer, until I scarcely ventured to move-scarcely to speak. In place of the careless audacity, which was my natural temperament, a deep sadness took possession How came I here? What was I to do here-what did I want here, where no one troubled himself about me? Was not all that had happened to me since yesterday only a dream, and had I not merely dreamed the beauteous maiden with the dark eyes and strange smile?

of me.

'You must be mad,' I said to myself again, completely mad. A nobleman like Herr von Zehren! Such doings are for the rabble. Old Pinnow-yes, yes, that is likely enough; but a Herr von Zehren-shame upon you!'

I endeavored with all my might to shake off a suspicion which was really intolerable; and thus afforded another proof that we all, however free we think ourselves, or perhaps have really become, still ever in our feelings, if not in our thoughts, are bound by other imperceptible but none the less firm ties to the impressions of our childhood and early youth. Had my father been a king and I the crown-prince, I should probably have seen the Evil One embodied in the person of a revolutionist; so as I had for a father a pedantically rigid As Constance did not return, and as Pahlen, to excise-officer, to my conceptions the most hideous my question about the dinner hour, responded by of all stigmas was affixed to the smuggler's career. asking me if I now wanted dinner too, I came to And yet this murky gate of Erebus, by which my the conclusion that for some hours, at least, I would childish fancy had so often stolen at a timid disbe left to my own devices. I therefore walked into tance, was invested with a diabolical fascination. the court, and then perceived that this part of the A sense as of home-sickness came over me. I How could it be otherwise, when I heard tell of castle was an addition, which formed a continua- saw in fancy the town with the narrow, crooked the privations which the wretches often endured tion to the main building, and had probably served streets running between the old-fashioned gabled with such fortitude, of the ingenuity with which as the manager's house. In the castle the shutters houses; I saw my little room, to which I would they knew how to baffle the utmost vigilance of on the ground floor were closed, and secured with have returned from school by this time to fling the officers, of the fearlessness with which they massive iron bar, a fact which did not by any my wearisome books upon the table and then fly not seldom confronted the most imminent peril ? means tend to give the old pile a more cheerful to my friend Arthur, who I knew had arranged a. These were perilous stories to reach the ear of an appearance. That a manager's house had long boat excursion in the harbor. I saw my father adventurous boy; but far too many such were been a superfluous appendage, the surroundings sitting at the window of his bureau in the Excise-talked over in our town, and what was the vorst plainly showed. In truth there was nothing here office, and crept close to the wall to avoid being of all, I had heard the most terrible and most

fascinating from the lips of my own father-naturally with an appendix of indignant reprobation always tacked on in form of a moral; but this antidote was, of a surety, never sufficient entirely to neutralise the poison. Had not Arthur and I, shortly before an examination in which we had the most confident assurance that we should cut but a poor figure, for a whole day taken earnest counsel together over the question whether we, in case we failed-or better yet, before standing the trial-should not turn smugglers ourselves; until we actually were scared at our own plans? That had been four years ago; but, although in the meantime the vehement antipathies and sympathies of youth had been moderated by maturer reason, still the thought of having fallen into the hands of a smuggler had even now the effect of making my heart beat violently.

'You must be mad-stark mad! Such a manit is not possible!' I continually repeated to myself, as I hurried along the path I had followed that morning-for indeed I then knew no otherthrough the park into the forest, until I again reached the tarn with the bank of moss.

BEYOND.

A flush on all the hills is spread-
A flush of Death and Beauty born;
As day, upon a crimson bed,
Lies down to slumber till the morn.
The touch of death is in the air,
I feel its fingers' icy chill;
And yet a smile divinely fair
When I would weep, forbids me still.
The clouds are gray, the winds are cold,
The dead leaves rustle at my feet;
And on the brown, deserted wold
Their fitful eddies whirl and meet.
But through this veil of wasting life
A fresher dawn of life I see-
My yesterdays with pain were rife;
To-morrow still is bright to me.
And so the dying year shall seem
The gorgeous portal of a fane,
Where all the heart hath dared to dream
Shall burst upon its sight again:
And dullest clouds to splendor turn,

And coldest winds to tropic breath;
Till the rapt soul shall pant and burn
To feel the waking touch of Death.

ONE YEAR MORE.

I gazed into the calm black water: I thought of the unhappy lady who had drowned herself there because she could not find the way back to Spain, Thou, in whose garden I have grown apace, and how strange it was that her daughter should

Plant of no grace,
Filling a good tree's place,
select precisely this spot for her favorite resting-Spreading no shade, nor showing any fruit-
place. Behind the bank lay her other glove, for Thankless from crown to root!
which we had looked in vain in the morning. I
kissed it repeatedly, with a thrill of delight, and
placed it in my bosom. Then leaving the place
hastily, I ascended the cliff, and passing the ruined
tower, went out to the farthest extremity of the
promontory, which was also its highest point. "One Year More, Master!-one year for my own!
Approaching the verge, I looked over. A strong
breeze had sprung up; the streaks of foam lying
among the great rocks and countless pebbles of I'll dig around his heart roots-graft and prune.
the beach, had grown broader; and here and there Then, if, for all, he bear not!

Thou who, these twenty years, hast come and found,
On tree or ground,

upon the blue expanse, flashed the white crest of a
breaker. The main-land lay toward the south-
west: I could have seen the steeples of my native
town but for a cliff that intervened, rising abruptly
from the sea, and now of a steel-blue color in the
afternoon light. And this is all that remains l'
I said, repeating the words of Constance, as my
eye, in turning, fell upon the ruined tower.

Sound, be it, or unsound,
No fruit, to praise Thee for Thy patient care-
Stubborn, and hard, and bare!

Let him alone:

With shame, and sob, and groan,

Ah! give me one year more!"

News Summary.

FOREIGN.

Ah! so soon?

GREECE AND TURKEY.
-The cable dispatches of the week relative to the

have sought refuge in Roumania, where they are notified that they must preserve a strict neutrality in case hostilities occur.

-The latest reports received from Paris state that there had been a collision between a band of invading Greeks and Turkish forces, in the Turkish province of Albania, in which the Greeks were victorious; also that the details of the European conference had been agreed upon, and that the sessions would commence January 2d.

-Garibaldi has formally declined the commission in the Greek army, which had been tendered him by the Grecian Government.

WEST INDIES.

-The Cuban insurrection, it is said, prevents the grinding of sugar and the gathering of coffee in the region of Santiago de Cuba, and the poor are emigrating to Jamaica to escape starvation. No additional fighting is reported. Late advices from Government sources in the island represent that the revolutionists were recently severely punished in an engagement near Puerto Principe. The same authority says that strychnine was found among the baggage captured from the revolutionists, and that it was their avowed intention to use it in poisoning the Spanish troops. The revolutionists' account of the fight differs materially from this, but does not deny the success of the Government troops. Another dispatch says that 800 fillibusters have landed in Santiago, and that they have joined the revolutionary forces. The number of Government troops in that vicinity is only about 1,800, and they are surrounded by 10,000 rebels.

-All the foreign ministers have recognized as effective the blockade established by the Haytien Government at certain rebellious ports.

SOUTH AMERICA.

-By the Atlantic cable we have news from Paraguay that the allied forces, under the command of Marshal Caxias, had made a desperate attack upon Villeta, President Lopez's strong hold, and were defeated with a loss of 1,500 killed and wounded. It is stated that President Sarmiento, of the Argentine Republic, has secured the good offices of Minister McMahon towards mediation for peace with Paraguay, and the Emperor of Brazil had in consequence threatened to withdraw his envoy from the Argentine Republic. The Emperor is determined in his opposition to any cessation of hostilities.

Rear-Admiral Davis was at Montevideo, November 13, awaiting information as to the obstructions in the Parana and Paraguay before going up with the Wasp, to be followed part way by the Pawnee, Quinnebaug and Kansas.

A letter from Montevideo says that President Lo

pez, of Paraguay, is prepared to accord full satisfaction to the United States for the wrongs suffered by American citizens, and it was thought that he would seek reconciliation with the United States. The allies were surprised in an advance on Ascunsion and lost

GREAT BRITAIN.

-A memorial, numerously signed by members of the British Parliament, has been presented to Mr. Reverdy Johnson, asking him to urge upon his Government the adoption of a system of penny postage between the United States and Great Britain. Mr. Johnson has also received a deputation of London artisans, who are desirous of forming a colony in Nebraska. Mr. Johnson encouraged the project.

Greco-Turkish question, and the probabilities of a conference of the great powers of Europe are contraI descended and threw myself down upon the dictory. It is now said that it is doubtful if a Peace soft moss that grew among the ruins. No place Conference will be held, if it should be, whether it will not do more harm than good. France and Austria are could have been found more fit to inspire fantastic undecided in the matter, England wants to remain one hundred prisoners. reveries. The wide expanse of sky, and beyond neutral and adhere to her old policy, while Prussia the edge of the upland a great stretch of sea, and coincides with Russia, and Russia is undetermined the nodding broom around me! In the sky the regarding her future policy. The Sublime Porte, fleecy clouds, on the water a gleaming sail, and in meanwhile, refuses to make any concessions or take the broom the whispering wind! How luxurious any steps toward effecting a compromise or submit his to lie idly here and dream-the sweetest dream of ultimatum to a European conference. Greece looks to insurrections among the Greeks in Turkey to aid sweet love that loves idleness: a dream, of course, her cause, while the Cretans remain indifferent. full of combats and perils, such as naturally fills a It is proposed to hold the conference in Paris in youthful fancy. Yes! I would be her deliverer; January, and that the basis thereof shall be the auwould bear her in my arms from this desolate cas-tonomy of Crete, the suspension of the energetic tle, a dismal dungeon for one so young and so fair; would rescue her from this terrible father, and these ruins would I erect again into a stately palace, and when the work was done and the topmost spires burned in the evening-red, would lead her in, and kneeling humbly before her, say, 'This is thine! Live happy: me thou wilt never see more!'

Thus I wove the web of fancy, while the sun sank toward the horizon, and the white clouds of noon began to flush with crimson. What else could I have done? A young fellow who has just run away from school, who has not a thaler in his pocket, and a borrowed hat on, and who scarcely knows where he shall lay his head-what else can he do but build castles in the air?

[CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.]

-The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the highest ecclesiastical Court in England, have pronounced against several practices of the Ritualists. -Sir Richard Mayne, Chief of the London Metropolitan Police, and the Earl of Shannon, are dead.

-On the subject of the Alabama claims the London Times says the people of both England and America are uneasy in regard to the relations which are to exist in future between the two nations. This uneasi ness arises from an ignorance of the tone of the negotiations now pending on the Alabama question.

SPAIN.

measures enunciated in the Sultan's ultimatum, and
an agreement to support the just demands of Turkey.
The Sublime Porte declines to yield the independence
or to make a sale of Crete, or to transfer the island to
Egypt. Russia has asked that hostilities be suspended
until the proposed conference has ended its delibera-
tions. The Sublime Porte has extended the time for
the departure of Greeks from the Turkish dominions.
In the meantime the Grecian Chambers have voted
the supplies asked for by the Government, and also
granted it full power to raise money and to make -The statement that the Spanish cities have elected
extraordinary levies for the army and navy. Troops Monarchists to the Cortes is denied by the Republi-
have been levied, the National Guard mobilized and cans. Emilio Castelar, well known in Spain as a vig-
towns fortified. The Turkish Admiral has announced orous advocate of a republic, says that a republic has
to the authorities at Syra that his intentions are been morally formed already, as the Republican
peaceful. The Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs has
officially declared that his Government will make
any sacrifice for the preservation of the rights and in-
dependence of the Greek nation. Grecian residents
of Turkey are fleeing from that country, and some

party carried all the great cities except Madrid in the late elections. The country is entirely tranquil. The Government proposes to make material changes in the colonial magistracy, and is also taking measures to reduce the budget for the ensuing year. Señor

Olozaga has been officially received as Minister of Spain at Paris by the French Emperor. The Spanish semi-official journals say that Spain will not even consider the subject of the sale of Cuba to the United States. The Duke of Montpensier has issued a manifesto announcing his liberal views, and the Madrid Imparciale follows the manifesto with the nomination of the son of the Duke as the King of Spain under a regency. The Provisional Government has contracted a loan with Erlanger.

DOMESTIC.

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the State's Attorney for Baltimore county, stating erally unchanged. The sales have been confined to
that he does not desire to prosecute the Messrs. Wise, the wants of the retail trade, and foot up about 8,000
barrels, mostly of choice brands. We quote:
indicted for an assault with intent to kill Mr. Pollard. Howard Street Super.
$6.50a 7 25
8 50a 8 75
The writer, it is said, is now on friendly terms with
Extra Shipping......................
High Grades.
the Messrs. Wise.
44 Family...
Western Winter Super.
Shipping Extra...
Choice Extra..
Family

-William A. Philips, late assistant Postmaster at
Cambridge, Md., has been arrested for robbing letters
passing through the office to an unknown amount,
and taking money received on account of Post-office
money orders to the amount of $3,000.

-Baltimore detectives have arrested two coal miners
named Patrick McGuire and Patrick Lannan, charged
with the murder of Douglas Love, the coal mine Su-
perintendent, at Lanoconing, Allegany county, Md.
-General Grant arrived in Baltimore on Wednes-
day, en route for Philadelphia. On his return he will
pay a brief visit, and be the guest of Wm, J. Albert.
-The letter carriers of Baltimore have appeared in
neat grey uniforms, with brass buttons.
-Twenty-seven thousand cigars were seized in Bal-
timore on board the steamer Cuba, from Ilavana, for
a violation of the revenue law.

President Johnson issued on Christmas day a proclamation of universal and unconditional pardon for all treasons against the United States, the effect of which is yet the subject of some speculation, and especially as to the indictment against Jefferson Davis. To dispose of this case it has been suggested that Mr. Davis must surrender himself into custody and get out a writ of habeas corpus, but there is no doubt among officials at the Capital about the process or mode to be pursued. An intelligent Washington correspondent say: "The proclamation has pardoned Mr. Davis of the offence upon which he is held under indictment. The Attorney for the Government can PRICES CURRENT AND REVIEW OF THE move a dismissal or nolle prosequi, and he will undoubtedly do so; or, if it should become neccessary, the attorneys for defendant couid make a motion for the discharge of their client, based upon the proclamation." It is well understood, however, that President Johnson did not intend to relieve Arnold, Mudd, Spangler and other prisoners confined at the Dry Tortugas.

-Christmas day was more generally celebrated in this country than ever before. In this and all the other cities stores and shops were closed and business was almost entirely suspended.

-Union county, Kentucky, is reported to be infested with a band of night-prowlers, who commit outrages on negroes. Various Ku-Klux outrages are reported from Union county, Indiana, among them the shooting of several negroes.

BALTIMORE MARKET,

Northwestern Super.......

Extra..

prime Live Geese at 70a75 cents; fair do. 60a65 cents, FEATHERS-Are in good request, with sales of

and common mixed at 40a42 cents b. FISH-Continues inactive and we have no sales reported from the wharf. From store we quote: Mackerel-No. 1 Bay, per barrel. No. 1 Shore (new) No. 2 (new) No. 3 (large, new) No. 3 (medium) Hakefish, 100 lbs...... For the Week ending Thursday, Dec. 31, 1868. Cod, small, 100 lbs.. Cod, large, [Our quotations are invariably Wholesale, unless other-Labrador Herring.. Box Herring,scaled.. wise expressed.] Large Magdalene, boxes.. FERTILIZERS-The market is nominal. We quote Peruvian Guano $62.50, gold, ton of 2,000 lbs.; Mexican A $30 currency; Raw Bone $56; Super Phosphate $60; Rhodes' Standard Manure, $50, in bags or bbls.; Orchilla Guano $30 ton; Soluble Pacific Guano $65; Patapsco Guano $60; R. R. Griffith's Prepared Fish Guano, in 125 b. bags, $55 ton; Raw Bone Phosphate 856 ton; Chicago Bone Fertilizer $16; Chicago Blood Manure $50; Maryland Powder of Bone $46 ton; Coe's Super Phosphate of Lime $60 ton.

9.25.

ASHES-We quote Pot $7.75a7.87, and Pearl at $9a ALCOHOL-There is very little offering, but prices are steady and unchanged. Quote Alcohol at $2.10 for 95 cent., and Cologne Spirits, at $2.15 gallon. APPLES-Are in fair demand, with sales of New York State at $5a5.50 bbl., and Western 1.50a5. BARK-We are not advised of any sales since our last report. We quote No. 1 Quercitron at $31, and No. 2 do. $23a28 ton and nominal.

BAGS-Are in limited demand. We quote Jute
Seemless at 28a30 cents; Cotton do. 35a45 cents; Duck
45a55 cents; small Gunnies 20 cents, and large and
extra size 27a29 cents each.

BEESWAX-For prime yellow holders are asking
38a39 cents b., with limited sales.
BLACK-EYED PEAS AND BEANS-Are in good
demand, with sales at $1.25a1.50 bushel for Peas, and
$2a2.50 for Beans.

BUTTER-We note less activity this week, but
prices are generally unchanged. We continue to
Pa-quote choice dairies Glades at 44a45 cents; fair to good
38a 10 cents; common do., 33a35 cents, and Western 34a
35 cents fb.

CANNED GOODS-Are in better request at unchanged prices.

-A Little Rock dispatch says that refugees from the counties in Arkansas "afflicted with militia" continue to flock to that city. The Governor of Arkansas has restored civil law in one county and part of another. -The small-pox epidemic is spreading over the cific States and Territories to an alarming extent. -St. James' Church at Waterbury, Connecticut, and Trinity Church at Lansingburg, New York, both Episcopalian, were burned during the Christmas holidays. -Laura Reno, who swore vengeance on the murderers of her brother, one of the victims of the Indiana 21⁄2 tb 66 Vigilance Committee, met a man at her brother's 2 b Pine Apple... funeral, whom she ordered away, telling him that she 2 b Green Corn. knew him to be one of the murderers. He slunk 2 b Green Peas.... 2 b Strawberries.. away without a word of denial. 2 tb Damsons.... 2b Egg Plums.. 2 b Green Gages... 2b Quinces..... 2 lb Pears.

-A communication from the general of the insur-2 tb gents and the members of the Revolutionary Junta in Cuba has been presented to Secretary Seward, pray-2 b ing for recognition as belligerents.

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1 lb Spiced Oysters.
Brandy Peaches, quarts.

..$0.00@1 50
0.002 50

4 0004 50

0.00@ 5.00
0 006 00

4.00@4 50

3 25a3 75
000@3 75
3 2543 50

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GRAIN.-At the close of our last report the market was dull, with prices favoring buyers, but the market rallied, and we noted most of the decline regained, continuing firm. The offerings at the Corn and Flour Exchange foot up 4,500 bushels Wheat, 100,000 do. Corn, 40,000 do. Oats, and 2,000 bushels Rye. We note sales of prime to choice samples of white and red Wheat at 235a245 cents; fair to good, 190a210 cents, and common to fair do. 150a180 cents. Corn may be quoted at 70 a78 cents for inferior to good white and yellow and 87a90 cents for yellow. We quote Oats at 63a65 cents, and Rye 140a150 cents bushel.

GINSENG-We note sales of Ginseng at 85a90 cents b.; Seneca Root, 35a38 cents; Snake Root, 39a40 cents; Pink do. 10a15 cents; Blood do., 7a8 cents, and Mandrake or May Apple 5 cents.

HAY AND STRAW-The demand continues good, with sales of prime Timothy at $18a20, Rye Straw $17a18, and Oat do. at $12.

HEMP-We are advised of sales of Rough American at 10 cents b., and Dressed do. 17 cents.

HIDES-Are in fair demand with light supplies. We quote: City Association, Steers, 142a15 cents; Cows do., 13a131⁄2 cents; New Orleans, green salted, 12a131⁄2 cents; do. dry do. 000@4 00 22 cents; Buenos Ayres 2a18% cents; do. dry 20a cents, gold; green 0 004 00 salted Calf Skins $1.90a2.10, and dry $1.50a1.75 piece. HOPS-Holders are asking 23 cents b for Eastern and 18 cents for Western, with sales only to a limited extent.

COTTON DUCK AND YARNS-The local trade de-Gen. Stoneman has ordered Sally Anderson, dis-mand is fair and prices firm; sales of No. 1 Duck at 56 charged by Judge Underwood, to be retained in No. 2 do., 53 cents, and No. 3 do. at 50 centsyard; custody. and Yarns 38a40 cents b. for the low numbers. STATE AND CITY. CHEMICALS-Demand moderate at unchanged -The commander of the State oyster police force of rates, viz: Soda Ash 2a234 cents; Caustic Soda 5a54 cents; Sal Soda $1.90, and Bleaching Powders 32 cents, Maryland, and the Chief Inspector of oysters for the gold. State of Virginia, have amicably settled the oyster COTTON-The demand for the week has been good and all fair grades are easy of sale, at slightly adboundary question between Maryland and Virginia, vanced rates. We quote ordinary Uplands at 231% at least so far as the police force is concerned. They cents; good ordinary do. 24 cents; low Middling 25 have entered into a written agreement as regards the cents, and Middling 25% cents b., closing active. CHEESE-The demand continues good and prices oyster boundary line, and defining the limits of their are firm, We quote Factory at 17a17 cents, Eastern operations under the oyster laws of the two States, Cutting 17a18 cents, Western do. 172a1734 cents, and English Dairy at 18 cents. with a view of preventing any further conflict.

-Daniel Dechert, publisher of the Hagerstown Mail, Democratic weekly, has recovered $7,500 damages against the Corporation of Hagerstown for the destruction of his publication office by mob violence in 1582. The office was destroyed at the time of the report that Colonel Kenley's regiment of Maryland volunteers had been captured by the Confederates and massacred. A number of cases of similar character are now pending in the Courts against the City of Hagerstown.

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NAILS-Duty, Cut 12 cents; Wrought 2 cents: Horse Shoe 5 cents; 5d. and upwards, $5; 3d., $6.50; 4d., $5.50.

LEATHER-The demand is fair and stocks still small and market firm. We quote Light rough Skirting at 40a43 cts.; Middling do. 38a41 cts.; City Slaughtered 43a46 cts; Country do. 39a41 cts,; Spanish Sole 35a38 cents; Calf Skins, rough, 75a100 cents; and finished $1.60a1.65 piece.

COAL-We quote Cumberland at $4.90a5 ton f. o. b. COFFEE-For the better grades the demand has been good, and we note sales of some 2,000 bags on terms not transpired, but supposed about our quotations. We quote choice Rio at 171a18 cents; prime 174 MOLASSES-There has been very little inquiry this al72 cents; good 15a16 cents; fair 14 al cents; and week, and we quote the market nominal at about preordinary 124a134 cents., currency; Java, 21a25 vious rates, viz: Cuba, 48a55 cents; English Island, 60a 65 cents, and New Orleans, 70a76 cents gallon. cents, and Laguayra, 16a17 ets. b., gold. DRIED FRUIT-There is no change to notice in the MILL FEED-Is selling at 22 cents for Brown Stuffs, market since our last report. We note sales of both and 38a40 cents a bushel for Middlings. Peaches and Apples at quotations, viz: Peaches, un- NAVAL STORES-Are inactive, and market dull We quote Spirits Turpentine at 45 peeled, at 5a8 cents for quarters and 10a12 cents for and nominal. halves, and peeled at 25 cents b. for prime bright lots. cents gallon; Pitch $4 bbl.; Tar $3 for sma 1, and FLOUR-Under a moderate demand the market has $3.75 for Wilmington. Common Rosin $2.50a2. 5a2.85 -It is stated that Mr. E. A. Pollard has written to ruled very dull and inactive, although prices are gen-for No. 2, and $3a5 bbl. for No. 1.

Juniper Tar Soap is a certain cure for chapped OILS AND CANDLES-The transactions are con- hands and all roughness or irritation of the skin,

fined to the wants of the trade, and we quote the caused by a changeable temperature; Eczema, Ring- PARR'S CHINMORE STR

RAGS-We quote mixed at 4a5 cents, and 7a8 cents for clean white do.

RICE-The market is steady. We quote Carolina at 8%a9% cents.

SALT-There is nothing doing except in a retail way. We quote Ground Alum at $2.10a2.20, Fine $2.90 a3.10 sack, and Turk's Island at 50a55 cents.

SHOT AND LEAD-Baltimore Drop is selling at 111⁄2 cents, and Mould at 122 cents b., and Bar Lead at 10% cents.

SHINGLES-Are selling at $10a11 M. for prime No. 1 Cypress. SUGAR-The only sale of which we hear for the week is 331 hogsheads and 1,279 boxes Cuba on private terms, for refining. The market closes quiet. We quote:

Cuba, Fair to Good Refining......

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OF BALTIMORE.

OFFICE IN COMPANY'S BUILDING, 10 South Street.

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5 Cash Gifts.

ALL POLICIES NON-FORFEITABLE.
POLICY-HOLDERS PARTICIPATE in the PROFITS
The only local Life Insurance Company in the State,
and the only Company doing business in Maryland
which has made a special deposit with the Treasurer
of the State, in accordance with the terms voluntarily
inserted in its Charter, of $100,000, in first-class securi-
ties, as a guarantee of good faith with its policy-hold-200
ers. Policies of every description issued at lowest 300
rates.
GEO P. THOMAS, President.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Hugh Sisson,

Hamilton Easter,
Thos. Cassard,
Allen A.Chapman, Hiram Woods, Jr. Geo. H. Miller,
Geo. P. Thomas, Wm. Devries, Charles Webb.
J. W. F. HANK, M. D., Medical Examiner.
CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTON, M. D., Consulting
Physician.
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CLAYTON C. HALL, Ass't Secretary.

MERCHANTS AND MECHANICS

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

OF BALTIMORE.

Office-Marble Building, 44 Second street. Insures PROPERTY of all descriptions against LOSS or DAMAGE by FIRE.

PERPETUAL POLICIES issued on Dwellings, Warehouses and Public Buildings.

N. P. CAMPBELL, President. WM. F. BURNS, Vice-President.

DIRECTORS:

John J. Wight,
Joseph H. Rieman,
Horatio L. Whitridge,
Joseph C. Whitney,
James H. Milliken,
Daniel J. Foley,
George W. Webb,
John M. Stevenson,
Henry W. Jenkins,

Charles M. Dougherty,
Robert T. Baldwin,
Wm. Pinkney Whyte,
Wm. F. Burns,
Wm. R. Seevers,
Dr. John F. Monmonier,
Wm. Henry Baldwin,
Wm. T. Markland,
Benj. F. Cator.
ISAAC WILLIAMS, Secretary.

BALTIMORE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,

(Established upwards of half a century,)

S. W. CORNER SOUTH AND WATER STREETS.
INSURES AGAINST LOSS OR DAMAGE BY FIRE,
In city or country, on the various descriptions of
property. Also issues PERPETUAL POLICIES.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
J. I. COHEN, JR., President.

Wm. G. Harrison,

George R. Vickers,

Francis W. Alricks,
David S. Wilson,
Josias Pennington,
Joshua I. Cohen,
Francis T. King,

Henry Carroll,
Richard S. Steuart,
Wm. H. Brune,
Herman Von Kapff,
T. Robert Jenkins,
C. Morton Stewart,
B. F. Newcomer,

Orville Horwitz.

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PEYTON & STARKE,

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GLASS, OILS, PAINTS,
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75 to 300
750 Fine Silver Watches.
30 to 50
Fine Oil Paintings, Framed Engravings, Silver Ware,
Gold Jewelry, in all valued at
Photograph Albums, and a large assortment of Fine

1,000,000 DOLLARS.

A Chance to Draw any of the above Prizes
by Purchasing a Sealed Ticket
for 25 Cents.

Tickets describing each Prize are SEALED in Envel-
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Sealed Ticket will be drawn, without choice, and de-
livered at our office, or sent by mail to any address.
ticket-holder on payment of One Dollar. Prizes
The prize named upon it will be delivered to the
by express or return mail.
will be immediately sent to any a dress, as requested,

You will know what your Prize is before
you pay for it. Any Prize may be exchanged
for another of the same value. No Blanks.
Our Patrons can depend on fair dealing.
REFERENCES.-We select the few following names
from the many who have lately drawn Valuable
Prizes and kindly permitted us to publish them:

88 S. CHARLES STREET, Manufactures Honey, Glycerine, Palm, Castile and other toilet SOAPS. Also, Pomades, Hair Oils, Colognes, Extracts, etc., etc.

Mr. S. T. Wilkens, Buffalo, New York, $1,000; Mrs. Bartlett White Lead and Zinc Company,

E. Stuart, 70 Nelson Place, N. Y., $500; Miss A. Mon-
roe, Chicago, Ill., Piano, valued at $650; W. Curtis,
New Haven, Gold Watch, $200; Robert Jackson,
Dul uque, Sewing Machine, $100; Philip McCarthy,
Louisville, Ky., $500; James Rogers, Washington, D.
C., Musical Box, $150; Miss Emma Walworth, Mil-
waukee, Wis., Piano, $500; Rev. T. W. Pitt, Cleveland,
Ohio, Melodeon, $125.

We publish no names without permission.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

NEW YORK.

Having been appointed by the BARTLETT WHITE LEAD AND ZINC COMPANY, General Agents for this market, we offer their pigment to the trade in assorted packages at New York prices.

The Company's trade mark guarantees its absolute chemical purity, and for every desirable property we put it in direct competition with the Purest English and American White Leads.

"They are doing the largest business; the firm is reli-
able, and deserve their success."-W'kly Tribune, Feb.8.
"We have examined their system, and know them
to be a fair dealing firm."-N. Y. Herald, Feb. 28, 1868.
"Last week a friend of ours drew a $500 prize, which
was promptly received."-Daily News, March 3, 1868.
Send for circular giving many more references and
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EVERY PACKAGE OF SEALED ENVELOPES
CONTAINS ONE CASH GIFT.

Thoroughly convinced of the positive excellence of
the article, we solicit for it simply a FAIR TRIAL.
CARR, BOYKIN & CO..
No. 29 Hanover street.
PAINTERS' AND ARTISTS' MATERIALS.

Six Tickets for One Dollar, 13 for Two Dollars, 35
for Five Dollars, 110 for Fifteen Dollars.
All letters should be addressed to

HARPER, WILSON & CO.,
173 BROADWAY, N. Y.
THE BALTIMORE GAS MACHINE

No. 7 NORTH CHARLES STREET, Respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they have just opened a new and full assortment of White Lead, Zinc, Colored Paints, Varnishes, Brushes, &c. Artists' Materials of the best English and American make. Wax Flower do. do. Decalcomanie Pictures for transferring. Diaphanie Pictures, or imitation stained glass. Fresco Painters' Colors and Brushes of every kind. Coach Painters' goods of the best description. Call and see us. You will find everything in the Paint Line, both dry and in oil, and all will be sold at the lowest prices.

Maryland. Ju

(Patents for 1866 and 1867 consolidated.)
For supplying Dwellings, Schools, etc., in the Coun-
try, with a Brilliant, Uniform and Steady Light.
The Light is perfectly free from all objectionable
features, no heat being used in its manufacture.
Manufactured by
AULT & MCAVOY,
32 N. Calvert St., 3 doors north of Lexington,
[P. O. Box 1147.]
Baltimore, Md.
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No. 173 Baltimore Street.

UST RECEIVED-Direct from Berlin-Another supply of

JOHANN HOFF" S MALT EXTRACT,
Very rich in Nutritious and Tonic principles. Highly
beneficial to enfeebled digestion and convalescence,
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A new Remedial Agent for DISEASES OF
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Imported and for sale by
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Dispensing Chemists,
Corner Charles and Mulberry streets,
Baltimore.

This Office is open for the purpose of Buying and
Selling on Commission all PRACTICAL PATENTS
and Mechanical Devices for general use, and for the
purpose of accumulating at this point, for the inspec-
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osophical, and other purposes.
Cumberland Lump, Smiths' and Steam Coal, at lowest
prices.

Manufacturers' Illustrated Catalogues, and RELIA-
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